The town, famous for its literary charm, always felt like a bustling hub of book lovers, brimming with lively debates, ...

This little town sits amidst breathtaking scenery with a fascinating history and offers a unique blend of English and Welsh ...

an ancient earthwork built by King Offa of Mercia in the 8th century to mark the boundary between his kingdom and Wales. Today, Offa's Dyke Path, a 177-mile (285 km) national trail, passes ...

From there the concept was borrowed by King Offa of Mercia, a part of modern-day England, where the term penny was first, pardon the phrase, coined. Fast forward a thousand years later ...

An earth structure, it was built by King Offa of Mercia, and at 270km long, it passed through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire.

Offa in the Benefactors Book (1380) of St Albans, an abbey he founded Credit: Alamy As unjustly forgotten as Mercia itself are the kingdom’s redoubtable royal women, and Adams rightly stresses ...

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On reaching the Welsh mountains, English expansion became a spent force, a fact which Offa, King of Mercia, recognised. There is evidence that, in about 780, he ordered the building of a dyke from ...

An earth structure, it was built by King Offa of Mercia, and at 270km long, it passed through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire.